Comments on: MacBook Pro Battery Life

By: Notebook Power Supply

Notebook Power Supply — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:34:41 +0000

I’ve been looking at different power supply units for my Acer model; it’s strange because the model it says my notebook requires is different from the model that came with the notebook, maybe I should get in contact with Acer to solve this issue. Anyway, I found your blog post very insightful.

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:19:06 +0000

7 Hours is Misleading Battery Life for MacBook Pro. They exaggerate and over-claim its battery performance

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:15:53 +0000

This is not possible. Even Wall Street’s Mossberg suggested in a MacBook Pro review that the battery does not live up to its 7 hours promise. It barely reaches 4 hours, even shut down most of the windows and dim the light. 8 Hours, you must be using it with a Cord when you go to school.

By: Angry Apple Fan

Angry Apple Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:08:06 +0000

Agree. Apple really misleads the customers. On its website, it claims to be 7 hours long. I upgraded to MacBook Pro for this reason . Its battery not too impressive, only 3 to 3.5 hours long.

By: Carlton8429

Carlton8429 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:51:54 +0000

My request for new MacBook Pro batery was rejected by Apple today. Battery 22 months old, lasts 12-20mins before stopping without warning. Holds 1692mAh after 297 cycles (so much for 80% of original charge after 300 cycles!). Extremely poor considering my friend with 4 year old clapped out Dell still gets over an hour from his battery

Apple said battery is a consumable item and worn out, not covered by their 2year extended warranty on Sony batteries, despite fitting their criteria of a faulty battery. It was purchased 27 March 2007, in the timeframe of the recall.

I have spent over $10,000 on Apple products in last 5yrs including imac 24″,imac 17″, MacbookPro 15″, and 2 mac mini’s, not to mention Airport expresses and extremes, and software upgrades.

Extremely angry at Apple stance, poor handling of issue despite fitting all criteria on their service website. All goodwill destroyed, I won’t ever sing their praise again, all for the cost of a minor part. Right now, they do suck!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:03:05 +0000

Needbattery.com has these batteries and they have the cheapest prices on the internet. http://www.needbattery.com/Laptops/Apple.html

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:09:35 +0000

The reason that people have hostility towards Apple on this point is because while Apple makes superb machines, they have a notorious record of being incredibly obtuse when it comes to disk space and battery time. It took them years to realize that one needs more than a minimal pittance of a hard drive on their machines, and if I'm buying a "pro" machine, I expect "pro" performance, especially when it comes to the battery time on a laptop. I've never managed to get more than 1.5 hours out of any Apple laptop, and I've owned them since 1993. Will I buy another one? Yes. But not without grilling the hell out of the salesperson on this question of battery life.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:40:11 +0000

hi,
i have a macbook pro 1.83GhZ, 1.5 Gig Ram
ans i have to say that the battery is a big problem.
I did this Battery Exchange Programm, so I have the good one in my macbook pro. But now after six month i can´t use my computer more than an hour without the power supply. I don´t know if my computer has a specific problem but it´s not a Laptop anymore it´s a desktop and a expensive one (i payd for it 3000 dollars). I had a G4 Ibook for 2 years and he was able to make 4 hours without problems. I love Macs but sorry the MacBook Pro is a joke!!! Kind Regards

By: Susanna

Susanna — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:52:14 +0000

I just have a quick question about my battery, since I’m not sure whether I’ve accidentally ruined it or not. The thing is, my Macbook Pro just shuts down when the battery gets to a certain point. Like the first time it happened, it was around 20%, but the second time was when it was around 40%. My question is, is it time for me to get a new battery or is the problem something deeper? Thank you so much in advance.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:40:28 +0000

Just traded in my 4 year old G4 titanium powerbook for the new MacBookPro 15.4in 2.2 Intel 2. After one week of use, I can say with confidence that my old computer had better battery life! Just running airport, safari, word, and mail so I can work in the living room, I’m getting only about 2.75-3 hours of battery life. This is a big disappointment since I expected an improvement over the old machine, and I agree with the other posts that it’s unfortunate that apple doesn’t display this info in the specs – might have thought twice about it!